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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (70379)	12/31/1998 3:14:00 PM
From: Ann Janssen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Mary, Your welcome. I know the article was very biased towards IBM. I just wanted to bring the numbers to your attention. There are other databases (ORCL, Sybase .... on and on) that will run on the larger machines. The thing I believe MSFT has done for the dinosaurs is force them to innovate. You know the old saying, lead, follow or get the H*LL out of the way. I still have to chuckle when some one talks about the NC (network computer), I have always called it a terminal. <GGG> It will be a LONG time before Gates can dominate the larger systems. The older systems have so many experienced people working on them and they have many more years of blood sweat and tears involved. Your comment about the upgrades never end applies to all software. We design it that way otherwise the programmers of the world would not have jobs. However we prefer those upgrades are for new functions and not to fix problems. I would go so far as to say most products are developed with an eventual obsoleteness in them (I know there is a term for this but I can't think of it today). If not, then we would never need anything new. If something better never came along we would all still be riding in horse drawn carriages and sending our mail via pony express. >>Why not distribute the processing, distribute the DASD, and distribute the telecom load and then provide for plenty of redundancy.<< Most 'mission critical systems' have these kinds of systems in place. If for nothing else than maintenance tasks, ie adding disk space, upgrading the DBMS etc.. >>If Intel and Microsoft can successfully manage their own business without the need for a mainframe - then I would say that the days of the mainframe are indeed numbered<< I believe Intel does have a big blue in their shop(s), I don't know all the details but I bet Tony could help us out on this one. I think a lot of us would like to See Tom come back but there are other factors with our team (used loosly) this year. We had an lot of freshmen in key positions and there is always that pressure to be #1. They'll get it together again and of course we will be #1 (in both polls) again. So don't burn your red sweat shirt yet. <GGGG> Besides there's always two sides to everything, we lost the bowl game last night but hubby won on the football pool. <BG> As far as stats Frank Solich is right up the with Tom Osborne and Bob Devany, they all 3 won only 9 games their first year as head coach. You have a great New Year and good luck with all your investments. Take Care Ann P.S. I'd be willing to beta test one of those drinkable cell phones!! <gg>